{"id":940,"date":"2009-11-21T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T17:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2009\/11\/21\/brody-condoncase\/"},"modified":"2009-12-03T12:51:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T17:51:54","slug":"brody-condoncase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2009\/11\/21\/brody-condoncase\/","title":{"rendered":"~BRODY CONDON\/’CASE’ !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSTO – of CINDERS – is in the – BRODY CONDON – ‘CASE’ – NEW MUSEUM PERFORMANCE !!<\/p>\n

BRODY CONDON presents: ‘CASE’ !!
\nSUNDAY – NOV 22, 2009 – runs from 12 – 6 PM !!
\nNEW MUSEUM<\/a> – LOWER EAST SIDE<\/p>\n

This event has been commissioned and presented by RHIZOME and PERFORMA 09.<\/p>\n

yes !! check out: BRODY CONDON !!<\/a><\/p>\n

A performance & installation based on the famous ‘classic’ cyberpunk novel – ‘NEUROMANCER’<\/a> – by WILLIAM GIBSON !! This 1984 novel – the most famous early cyberpunk fiction outing – tells: “the story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to work on the ultimate hack!!” The event will be a ‘deadpan’ reading of the novel by mostly non-professional actors in a casual, dress rehearsal-like atmosphere !! BRODY CONDON tells us the performance “combining the 1980s dystopian techno-fetishism of William Gibson
\nwith early 2oth C abstraction faux ‘virtual reality’ – scenes will unfold via moving Bauhaus-inspired sculptural props – accompanied by a Gamelan ensemble !! – Dharma Swara” !!<\/p>\n

\"gamelan\"<\/a>
\nOMFG – check out: Dharma Swara on YouTUBE !!<\/a><\/p>\n

This premiere NYC performance of ‘Case’ – will feature some very very interesting cast members. who ?
\nPolitical activist (and notorious hell-raiser\/mid-west-based) RAY ‘BAD RAD’ RADTKE – who will star as the main character – HENRY DORSETT CASE – a drug addict and computer hacker hired “to execute an impossible cyber-crime”.
\nSTO – of CINDERS<\/a> – a Brooklyn-based gallerist\/artist\/small press founder\/musician\/performance artist\/& much more we are sure !! – much respected locally in NYC – in all his facets !! – will play LUPUS YONDERBOY – leader of the techno-anarchust gang – the PANTHER MODERNS !!
\nand, SASHA GREY – the young (21 !!) alternative porn actress & techno, wait that’s: ‘industrial music’<\/a> – musician !! …
\n will be: the street samurai MOLLY !!<\/p>\n

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\nyes !! check out: SASHA GREY !! on wikkki !!<\/a><\/p>\n

talk about a cast – line-up !!
\nThe script has been prepared by the writer BRANDON STOSUY, yes !! check out: THE BELIEVER\/BRANDON STOSUY !!<\/a>
\nThe sound design is by: PETER SEGERSTROM – and, yes !!
\ncheck out: FLATFILE !! – aka – the “digital igloo” of PETER SEGERSTROM.<\/a>
\nand last but not least, the graphic props are by: BREANNE TRAMMELL !!
\nand, check out: AGAIN – BREANNE TRAMMELL – and color her – in !!<\/a><\/p>\n

watch out !! – with this much (radical) talent concentrated in one place – the island might just – tip over !! <\/p>\n

note, look out MISSOURI !!
\nBRODY CONDON also tells us, his – ‘CASE’ – will be performed at “a small outdoor community theater in rural Missouri – Summer 2010” !! <\/p>\n

PIX FROM THE NEW MUSEUM PERFORMANCE – SUNDAY NOV 22, 2009 !!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Brody
\n. . . we had to get into the New Museum under an assumed identity – cause artlovers has been blacklisted by the museum’s press office !! (I wonder why ??!!) so it was kind of fitting to run into IAN, a founding member of NYC’s BLACK LABEL TALL BIKE CLUB and a dynamic presence on the city’s (truly) underground art scene !! he has a part in the production. <\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nSTO – had just finished his part !! he played Lupus Yonderboy, leader of the techno-anarchist gang – the Panther oderns.<\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nJEE – JEE YOUNG SIM – she played the street Ninja – Hideo !!<\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nKELIE BOWMAN, with sculptor RYAN DOYLE – was there to lend her support to the production.<\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nBRODY CONDON – PHOTO BY: KRISTIANNA SMITH COURTESY\/BRODY CONDON.
\nHis project: ‘Case’ – “is the deadpan reading of the classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer<\/em> by William Gibson in a rehearsal-like atmosphere.”
\nThis NYC performance was the premiere presentation.
\nBRODY CONDON’S body of work “explores concerns about the over-identification with fantasy in contemporary culture, frequently incorporating modified computer games and role-playing subcultures to create performance and video installation. Past exhibitions include the 2004 Whitney Biennial, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, Mattress Factory, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam”. <\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nthe performance had resumed – and the lights went slightly colored, and theatrical !!
\nthis ANDREW CLAY McGRAW Ph.d., Assistant Professor, Music \/ Ethnomusicology at the University of Richmond, VIRGINIA.
\nHe is the leader of the Gamelan Ensemble – DHARMA SWARA !! <\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nI guess it was too much to expect the GAMELAN to show up in formal costumes (as in the YouTube clip above), though think that would have made a huge visual contrast – the play, or performance really – actually a reading – being so casual, and presented so, well: like it is – punk dudes lost in cyberspace !!<\/p>\n

\"brody
\nit was still fascinating to watch the scenes unfold – through the alert eyes – of the first – frontier !!
\nthe Gamelan musicians !!<\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nthe simple scenery props contrasted in a counter-intuitive but, subtle dynamic way – with the ornate Gamelan.
\nin fact subtle, low key – was the under-riding vibe.
\nthere was always this underlying strange tension – between the now – simple and straightforward – and the futuristic forces – of creativity. I guess you could say the Gamelan also presented a framework – a connection to the past – where tribalism meets globalism – going into the future. <\/p>\n

\"brody
\nthere’s no way to post a photo of it – but there was this strange eerie soundtrack going on, too – throughout out the whole performance – except when the Gamelan chimed in, like tin thunder – and overrode it.
\nat first I thought it was just the ‘White Noise’ of the Museum !!?? but then – I’m like – does the Museum really have those kind of mechanical gears working down here, even though the performance space – was below ground level ?
\nit was this kind of Mad Max<\/em> futuristic track – you know – old obsolete mechanical gears – of several generations back – in the future – working deep in the forgotten city – pit.
\nit was extremely cool – and effective. I guess that would be accolades to PETER SEGERSTROM – the musical director !! <\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nwaiting for things to start up. watching the reading – being staged – was like watching a play within a play – and seemed very appropriate – for the story-line. it also brought the viewer into the: present. that is, cyberspace circa 1980 !!<\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nLIONEL – read the part of ARMITAGE.<\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nSASHA GREY comes onstage – with RAY ‘BAD RAY’ RADDTKE, “political activist and notorious hell-raiser” – in real time – who played the main character – Henry Dorsett Case – “a drug addict and computer hacker hired to execute an impossible cyber crime.” <\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nBRODY CONDON, in the gray shirt – instructs the cast – as the event – plays out. <\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nSASHA GREY was a transfixing stage presence.
\nShe played Molly.<\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nan overview – this was Part 3. Midnight in the Rue Jules Verne.<\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nMELISSA BAXTER – from Missouri. She read the part of Maelcum.<\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nyes, we caught – IAN – in his stage time. <\/p>\n

\"Brody
\nBRODY CONDON presents: ‘CASE’ – a reading of WILLIAM GIBSON’S – ‘Neuromancer’<\/em> – at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Sunday, Nov 22, 2009. NYC.
\nScript by BRANDON STOSUY.
\nSound Design by PETER SEGERSTROM.
\nCasting by RAY RADTKE, BRANDON STOSUY.
\nLIVE MUSIC: GAMELAN DHARMA SWARA – directed by ANDREW CLAY McGRAW.<\/p>\n

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\nwhen, the DHrama Swara Gamelan took intermissions – it was a 6 hr performance !! – it brought to mind – how much this novel, and Brody’s staging – was so raw – and low down beautiful, in the street – tough – cool – low profile. but edge-city !!
\nfascinating – for what it said, and what lay between the lines, and – in the empty spaces.
\nof the here, now. past & past future !!<\/p>\n

\"brody
\nI guess you could say – the ornate golden ancient gongs, percussion chimes and drums – and the tiny plastic blue stools – the musicians sat on – kind of summed it up: ancient Asian tribalism meets Chinese mass production – in a tale of
\nglobal cyberspace – gone Mad Max. and, the underground artist activists – who read the roles – underground ‘futurists’ – in their own real time lives – pretty much. of that, there is no – doubt. <\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH – unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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